Life and Times of J. Swaminathan

Swaminathan wrote that "cultural experiences and activity in India is a multi-level phenomenon – and these levels are often mutually independent and non-interacting – it is the urban and the so-called modern sense of contemporarity that appears to dominate the scene and thus to distort the real perspective".
Likewise, Swaminathan pondered over the tribal culture and throughout his life he kept on addressing the people and tried to give the tribal expression a proper place in the global art and cultural fora.
As an artist and a man of institutions he kept on guiding people from all walks of life who value Culture and human endeavour in wider perspective.
Life and Times of J. Swaminathan

The Creative Circuit

Within the panorama of an art language or visualculture anything from a simple mother goddess figurine to the luscious Sanchi Yakshi has this life content, but their dimensions and implications vary, so they are rewarding in differents ways, and one cannot replace the other. But in such a panorama they can illuminate each other and a consanguineous group of such art objects can intertwine with each other and produce an intriguing composite. Alone by themselves they do not have this advantage.
"The Creative Circuit"
K. G. Subramanyan

Le Musée Imaginaire

In "le Musee Imaginaire ", the most unexpected works are not seeing as strangeness or agreeable curiosity : they have talks with the most famous and the most 'noble' works of the European culture. In the XIXth century, which European was interested in the unknown art of caverns, Sumerian art, pre-Columbian sculpture, Japanese painting of the Middle Age, zen wash drawing or idols of New Ireland? These works that Malraux questioned fervently were considered by him neither subordinates nor awkward: "the idol does not stammer the language of the human forms, it speaks his own."

about me

Hervé Perdriolle is art director, curator and essayist. Cofoundator of the Artistes revue and of the Art Modeste, he is the promoter of the French artistic movement Figuration Libre. He organises the first show in France of, for example, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Ravinder Reddy. From September 1996 to May 1999, Hervé Perdriolle has settled in India. He writes and organises shows about tribal and popular contemporary art from India.